Michael Hambling > Quotes

“Sophie opened one sleepy eye. A chink of light had found its way through a gap in the bedroom curtains and was falling on her face. She felt her husband slide his cold body down under the duvet and raised her head. She spotted a steaming mug of tea on her beside cabinet.”
― Michael Hambling, Secret Crimes

“bolshie”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“they could afford was a rogue cop on the loose”
― Michael Hambling, Twisted Crimes

“whirligigs,”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“antiquarian”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“diktat,”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“of”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“intransigence”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“Indian”
― Michael Hambling, Shadow Crimes

“harridan,”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“bonhomie”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“his”
― Michael Hambling, Detective Sophie Allen: Books 1-3

“Arsenous”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“Fuck, bugger and blast.”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“might mean for their murder investigation. She looked across the table at the Violent Crime Unit’s junior detective. ‘Rae, you get an incident board set up, then find out what you can about Tony Quigley and his wife. All we know so far is that he was a prison officer at Portland until he took early retirement two years ago. Maybe someone bore a grudge against him from back then. But he and his wife seem to have been living a lifestyle beyond what I would have expected. Barry, can you contact the prison governor at Portland and fix up an appointment for us tomorrow? Don’t give too much away but let him know we want to find out all we can about Quigley. Let’s get busy.’ Rae Gregson returned to her desk. She’d become used to this kind of research in the time she’d been with the unit. It had become one of her key specialities — seeking out background information on suspects, victims, family members and contacts. And with such an unusual name as Quigley, it shouldn’t be a difficult task. As the afternoon wore on, the bank of information grew. Tony Quigley had been born in the mid-fifties in Kent to a local Gravesend father”
― Michael Hambling, Shadow Crimes

“bonhomie.”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“bags.”
― Michael Hambling, Detective Sophie Allen: Books 1-3

“propitious”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series

“with bleach and scrubbed the washbasin and the bath. He’d put a clean under-sheet on the bed and a fresh cover, in a pretty shade of lilac,”
― Michael Hambling, Buried Crimes

“that”
― Michael Hambling, Silent Crimes

“left”
― Michael Hambling, The Complete Detective Sophie Allen Mystery Series